MPUMALANGA – A notorious cash-in-transit alleged robber, Elvis Press Makhubela (41), is expected to appear at the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court on Thursday for a judgement on a bail application.
Makhubela was traced and arrested when a warrant of arrest was executed on Wednesday, 18 March 2020, in a tracing operation by the Hawks’ Serious Organized Crime Investigation that linked him to at least two cash-in-transit robberies that took place in Sabie and Nelspruit areas of Mpumalanga during 2017 and 2018 respectively. The accused made court appearances on 20 and 31 March 2020 and his bail application which was vehemently opposed by the investigators was heard last week Monday, 11 May 2020.
Makhubela was allegedly part of a heavily armed group that attacked an armuored cash vehicle enroute to Marble Hall on 02 May 2017 and also the one on Tuesday, 03 April 2018, along Kamagugu road in Kanyamazane where a brown Mercedes Benz rammed into an armoured vehicle and forced it off the road, shots were then fired at the truck before the perpetrators ripped the vaults apart using explosives and made off with an undisclosed amount of money.
